In our last post we learned what affiliate links are and talked about affiliate networks. If you haven’t read the big Affiliate Network Guide<\/a> yet, I recommend you to put it on your to do list. You’ll find useful informations that will help you to better understand the things we talk about in this post. Today’s article is all about\u00a0how to use affiliate links to get the best possible monetisation results for your blog posts and content. Find out what the best strategies are to encourage your blog readers to drive sales from your affiliate links and help building you a passive income with your fashion or lifestyle blog.<\/p>\n\n The easiest way to let your blog readers shop your fashion and lifestyle products is directly within your blog posts. Who could be a better testimonial for the cute cropped top and Levis jeans shorts than yourself? The visual balance of text, images and affiliate links makes the shopping on your blog a comfortable and personal experience.<\/p>\n In our MunichParis Studio Themes<\/a> we place the affiliate links on both the preview thumbnail on the homepage as well as within the post. Through displaying them in multiple locations you allow the reader to engage faster with the affiliate links.<\/p>\n\n Before we get to our example, let’s get our vocabulary right. When we speak of affiliate links we mean the single products you’ll see in your shopping widget. What we do is insert a shopping widget with multiple affiliate links into your posts to let the reader shop the stuff you are wearing in your blogposts. I’ll quickly explain how this works with Shopstyle Collective<\/a> (it may be a little bit different on other platforms):<\/p>\n Login into your ShopStyle Collective dashboard and click on the blue button on your left which reads ‘Create<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\n Click on ‘Product Widget<\/strong>‘ and then search and choose the products you like. In best case similar items you wear in your post.<\/p>\n To add a product (affiliate link) to your product widget (shopping widget) hover over it and click on ‘Add to widget<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\n After you’re done with your selection click on ‘Next<\/strong>‘. In this step you can now decide the appearance of the product widget (shopping widget) with meta data like brand, price and shop. Check or uncheck the things you want or don’t want to see. Also, you can decide the rows and the \u00a0columns as well as the image size of your product widget (shopping widget).<\/p>\n For the optimal use of the shopping widget we’d recommend to use one row and at least 4 columns.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Now click on ‘Publish’ and copy the shopping widget code \u00a0and paste it into your post. Pay attention\u00a0that you paste the\u00a0shopping\u00a0code while you’re in ‘HTML Mode’ of your post editor.<\/p>\n The following video shows the whole process of creating a shop the post widget with Shopstyle Collective:<\/p>\nShop the Post Widget<\/h2>\n
How to build a Shop the Post Widget for a Fashion Blog<\/h3>\n